Lithium greatly reduces suicide risk: study
The mood-stabilising drug lithium reduces suicide risk by more than 60 percent among people with depression.
Nazarbayev calls to make Kazakhstan green
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has held a field meeting on development of the Green Belt around Astana.
Women's prayer tests ultra-Orthodox hold on Western Wall
The singing rises through the early-morning cool which still covers the esplanade in front of the Western Wall, the holiest site at which Jews can pray.
More than 2mn Tibetans rehoused, relocated: rights group
More than two million Tibetans in China have been forced to change homes or relocate in a government-sponsored programme that is damaging their traditional culture and rural lifestyle.
Gene clues show which children will grow out of asthma
A gene scorecard may one day help predict which youngsters are likely to grow out of childhood asthma and which will have the disease in adulthood.
Britain pushes ahead with 'three-parent' fertility technique
The British government on Thursday said it would pursue a radical fertility technique that uses DNA from three parents to create an embryo.
Lessons at home and homework at school in US
When April Burton explains the intricacies of French grammar to her American classroom, the students are at home, in front of their computer or smartphone.
Over 1 thousand dead seagulls discovered in Kazakhstan sector of Caspian Sea
Mass mortality of seagulls has been registered at Shalyga island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea.
Men dare to bare at Paris fashion
Belgian designer Raf Simons on Wednesday got Paris fashion week off to an unconventional start, bussing hundreds of people out to the distinctly less than fashionable Paris suburb of Le Bourget.
Winfrey heads Forbes celeb 'power' list
Television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was named the most powerful celebrity in the world on Wednesday as Forbes.com released its annual list of the top movers and shakers in the entertainment industry.
Australia takes Japan to top UN court to stop whaling
Australia takes its legal battle to stop Japanese whaling in the Antarctic before the UN's highest court on Wednesday, in an emotionally-charged case activists say is make-or-break for the giant marine mammals' future.
Rising seas washing away Pacific leader's home island
As the US urges world leaders to ramp up action on climate change, the leader of one small island chain in the North Pacific Ocean has already got the message -- watching helplessly as rising seas slowly erode his birthplace.
Paris fashion week kicks off
After London and Milan, Paris on Wednesday picks up the fashion baton with the start of nine days of catwalk collections for 2014 kicking off with menswear and ending with haute couture,
New flame-headed bird species found in Cambodia capital
A new species of bird with a distinctive orange-red coloured tuft of feathers on its head has been found in Cambodia's populous capital city.
In US, Asian immigrants better off than whites: study
Asian immigrants tend to live in highly segregated enclaves in the United States and their income level is often higher than that of white Americans.
Kazakhstan has no plans to divert Irtysh: authority
The General Plan of Territories in Kazakhstan does not provide for diversion of the Irtysh River: Kazakh Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Construction and Architecture.
Japanese racing pigeon flies across Pacific to Canada
A plucky pigeon that flew across the Pacific Ocean from Japan will be bred by a bird lover in Canada hoping its progeny will make top long-distance racers.
Kazakhstan allocates 600 quotas for IVF in 2013
600 quotas for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) were allocated for 350 thousand infertile families in Kazakhstan in 2013.
Breast is best for getting ahead: study
People breastfed as infants have a 24 percent better chance than their formula-fed counterparts of climbing the social ladder.
'Dear Italy, I have left, but would return if...'
As thousands of Italians leave the country to look for work elsewhere, one young journalist's blog claims to offer "a megaphone for this generation," a voice to all those who profess to be ready to return "if...".